Indian Fairy Tales, XV. the Gold-giving Serpent., sentence 35

The serpent |fearing its vengeance he brought appears after a long delay at |food and honey to its lair, and the mouth of its lair, and |begged reconciliation.

Who acts: serpent, usual · What happens: fear, bring, appear, beg · To what, where: vengeance, mouth

This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XV. the Gold-giving Serpent.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (serpent, usual), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 serpent	det
2	serpent	serpent	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 appears	nsubj
3	\|	\|	PUNCT	_	4 fearing	punct
4	fearing	fear	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 serpent	acl
5	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 vengeance	nmod:poss
6	vengeance	vengeance	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fearing	obj
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 brought	nsubj
8	brought	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 vengeance	acl:relcl
9	appears	appear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	after	after	ADP	_	13 delay	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 delay	det
12	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 delay	amod
13	delay	delay	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 appears	obl
14	at	at	ADP	_	16 food	case
15	\|	\|	CCONJ	_	16 food	cc
16	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 delay	nmod
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 honey	cc
18	honey	honey	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 food	conj
19	to	to	ADP	_	21 lair	case
20	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 lair	nmod:poss
21	lair	lair	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 food	nmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 mouth	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 mouth	cc
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 mouth	det
25	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 appears	obl
26	of	of	ADP	_	28 lair	case
27	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 lair	nmod:poss
28	lair	lair	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 mouth	nmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 reconciliation	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 reconciliation	cc
31	\|	\|	PUNCT	_	32 begged	punct
32	begged	beg	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	33 reconciliation	amod
33	reconciliation	reconciliation	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 appears	parataxis
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 appears	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	fear	gerund	the serpent not said here	gold's vengeance		vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer vengeance=Stimulus
2	bring	past	usual	gold's vengeance not said here		vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent vengeance=Theme
3	appear	present	the serpent	the mouth of gold's lair	after a long delay at food to gold's lair and honey	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	beg speech: request	participle				vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V PP.Topic»: agent=Agent

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7128 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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